National Tour Info
Yes, But? Is a national tour of audio-visual artwork. The tour spans 2025 to Spring 2026, and is funded by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon. It was initiated and is being led by artist Marie Brett, with the support of a number of arts, community and healthcare organisations including The Alzheimer Society of Ireland.
Artwork Info
Yes, But Do You Care? is a compelling audio-visual art piece that creatively reimagines the human right to make a bad decision, the ethics of family care-giving, and Ireland’s new capacity legislation.
Held in IMMA’s National Art Collection, this highly evocative and brave art piece spans the visuals of human body metaphor, moving across open-fields and the domestic, with a collaged sound-scape combining lived-life testimony and judicial readings. Visuals include a muscle-man bravado inside a kitchen, a man spinning with abandon in long grass, and a guy dancing under high rise flats. Tango and waltz combine with intimate shared stories of a silent scream and legal mumbo jumbo.
The artwork was made by acclaimed visual artist Marie Brett and included collaboration with renowned choreographer and dancer Philip Connaughton; many members of the Dementia Carers Campaign Network supported The Alzheimer Society of Ireland; and advisors in law, advocacy and human rights.
Screening and Discussion Event
The artist Marie Brett will be present at each venue screening and will take part in an intimate Q&A event. This is an opportunity to view the powerful artwork and to hear the artist speak about how the piece was made, her motivation, inspiration and conceptual ideas as well as some behind-the-scenes happenings.
Biography
Marie Brett is one of Ireland’s leading socially engaged artists. She creates work with audio-visual, immersive sculptural installation combining live performance, printmaking and written form. Conceptually her work centres on sensitive and challenging human experience such as (ill) health, human trauma, social injustice and loss. She initiates cross-disciplinary collaboration to inform and shape new work. And has founded extensive multi-site projects across health, community care and academic settings. Her work is presented
publicly in both gallery and unusual sites of flux. And is contextualised through ideas of hope, cope, care, folk medicine and modes of DIY survival.
Brett is a graduate of Goldsmiths, London University (MA / BA Arts Degrees). She has received considerable national awards and commissions; has artworks in the National Collections of IMMA, The Irish Museum of Modern Art; Birthrights UK; a number of Local
Authorities, and The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon. She is a sought after artist mentor, with writing published in Ireland, Britain and Finland.
Recent work includes a nine country global justice commission; building an immersive installation at Brussel’s European Parliament; touring a national infant mortality art series to healthcare and arts settings; creating a series of live performances at Holy Wells; a collaboration with trafficked modern-day slaves with Health Service Executive and Drug-Squad and Organised Crime Bureau collaboration; and making an audio-visual work about a human’s last breath informed by hospice palliative care staff, The Folklore Collection and University scholars.
Currently Brett is touring her acclaimed ‘Yes, But Do You Care?’ films, held in IMMA, The Irish Museum of Modern Art’s national collection. She is collaborating with two arts psychotherapists on a newly published paper. And Laois County Council have awarded her ‘Our Side of The Mountain’ socially engaged project with a Public Percent for Art Commission.
Artist’s website: www.mariebrett.ie
